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Michele Lawford

Board Member

Michele Lawford is a lawyer and adjudicator. She works with both public and private sector clients, particularly in the health field, including public hospitals, community health agencies, public health units, and pharmacies. She practices between Kingston and Toronto with a boutique law firm, Osborne Margo Lawford.

Lawford practiced on Bay Street for over 15 years at Genest Murray LLP and Dentons Canada LLP, where she focused on competition law, commercial litigation, insurance defence and copyright law. She has been a Vice Chair, Senior Lawyer and presiding member of three provincial health tribunals, pursuant to appointments by Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor-in-Council – the Consent and Capacity Board, Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and the Health Services Appeal and Review Board.

Lawford is a former Special Advisor (Legislative) to the Attorney General of Ontario and has been the lawyer member for three health sciences research ethics boards at the University of Toronto. She is a former director of the Elizabeth Fry Society and Humewood House.